Glasspool House is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Glasspool House
- WRENN ID
- graven-postern-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Glasspool House, Part Lane, Swallowfield, RG7 1RU
- OS grid reference
- SU 728 634
- Coordinates
- 51.36536, -0.95545
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Glasspool House is a cottage that dates back to the 16th century and was altered in the 20th century. It features a timber frame with painted brick infill and a half-hipped thatched roof. The building has a rectangular plan consisting of three framed bays, along with a 20th-century flat roof extension at the rear. It stands two storeys high and has a flanking chimney on the right side, as well as one chimney at the rear. The entrance front has four bays and includes a 20th-century door located under a gable porch in the second bay from the right. There is an old fire insurance plaque mounted on a post at first floor level to the left of the entrance. Inside, the timber frame is exposed, and the roof features a queen post design with curved windbraces.
Local climate
Glasspool House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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